LOUISVILLE, Ky. -With a light first day of action that included diving and a pair of relays, the University of Cincinnati swimming and diving teams opened competition at the inaugural American Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships.

Diving action saw the men compete on the one-meter and the women jump off the three-meter. Bill Magill posted the top Bearcats score of 203.65, while Amanda Coffey led the UC women at 190.65.

The meet continues on Thursday, Feb. 20, with preliminaries in the 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley and 50 freestyle. Women's one-meter diving preliminaries will take place at 12:30 p.m. and the finals for all the earlier events, along with the 4x50 freestyle relay. Keire enters the championships with the fastest time of any conference swimmer in the 500 freestyle.